Apparatus for opening bottles used for containing aerated



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

H.- OODD.

APPARATUS FOR OPENING BOTTLES USED FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND WHICH ARE FITTED WITH INTERNAL STOPPERS.

No. 326,630. Patented Sept. 22, I885.

N4 PETERS Plwla-Lflhogmpbnr. Washington. D. C.

2 Sheets- -Sheet 2.

(No ModeL) H. OODD.

I APPARATUS FOR OPENING BOTTLES USED FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS AND WHICH ARE FITTED WITH INTERNAL STOPPERS.

Patented Sept; 22, 1885.

El i: I///\\ v 1 I, F F/Z'I i l N 6 flnwaea. [Wm a W w M um 44%; M g

N. PETERS. Fhuhrlilhngnphur, Washington. D C- the head of the bottle then llnr rnn STATns PATENT] Orrrcn.

HIRAM GODD, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR OPENING BOTTLES USED FOR CONTAINING AERATED LIQUIDS, AND WHICH ARE FITTED WITH INTERNAL STOPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,630, dated September 22, 1885. Application filed March 27, 1885- (NO -J To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM 00131), a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at N o. 41 Gracechurch street, in the city of London, England, bottle-manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Opening Bottles Used for. Containing Aerated Liquids, and which are Fitted with Internal Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for opening bottles used for containing aerated liquids, and which are fitted with internal stoppers.

At the present ti me a plunger pressed down-' ward by the action of a lever is for this purpose commonly used to press down the stopper into the interior of the bottle, the head of the bottle being held up while the stopper is so forced downward by the neck of the bottle being inserted between the two arms of a forked projection standing out from the bed of the apparatus below the plunger, and by resting upon the top of the arms.

As the bottles to be opened are commonly of various patterns and sizes, their heads vary considerably in diameter, and are often too small to allow ofthcir being caught by the arms if the arms are wide enough apart for the necks of the larger size of bottles to pass between them. To remedy this inconvenience, I add to such apparatus a pair of arms capable of being turned toward one another and made to grasp the neck of a bottle placed between them whenever the plunger is made to descend; and inorder to allow for the varying diameter of the necks of different bottles I cause the arms to be so turned toward one another at the time when the plunger descends by the action upon them of springs which will yield so soon as the arms grip the neck of a bottle between them. In this way, whether the bottle be small or large, its head will always be upheld when the plunger is forced downward to press in the stopper. For this purpose the lever by which the plunger is forced downward may be formed with an arm projecting beyond its axis, and this arm may have the upper end of a descending rod joint-Y I ed to it, while the lower end of the rod is made to pass between tail ends of the two lever-arms which are to grasp the neck of the bottle. Either the lower end of the rod might be formed with inclines to act against springs fixed to the two arms, or two springs fixed to the rod might act against tail ends of the arms, whenever the lever was turned in a direction to force down the plunger.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section, of apparatus constructed as above described. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the lower end of therod which carries the springs above mentioned.

A is the plunger, which can be pressed downward by the action upon it of a lever, B, to force inward the stopper of an'internallystoppered bottle containing aerated liquid.

C is a spring by which the plunger A is held up.

B is-a short arm of the lever B, to which is jointed the rod D, the lower end of which carries two springs, E, as shown in Fig. 3.

F is a forked projection forming part of the bed or bottom plate, F, of the apparatus.

G G are two leverarms lying above the two arms of the forked projection F, and each capable of turning around the lower end of the standard H. The forward ends of these lever-arms are continuously pressed apart by a smallspring, I, placed between them, as shown at Fig. 2. The lower end of the rod D and the springs, E, carried by it pass between the tail ends of the lever arms, as shown at Figs. 1 and 2.

WVhen the neck of a bottle has been placed between the forward ends of the two leverarms, and arm B of the lever B is turnedv forward, the plunger A is forced downward against the top of the stopper of the bottle, and at the same time the rod .D is drawn upward, thereby causing the springs E to force apart the tail ends of the lever-arms G, and to move the forward ends of these arms to ward one another, so causing them to nip the neck of the bottle and to come well below the bottom of its head. In this way, whether the neck and head of the bottle be small or large,

lever B, of a rod, D, springs E, and leverarms G, to act substantially in the manner 10 hereinbefore described.

1e bottle will be securely upheld at the time 'hen the plunger is made to descend to force 1 the stopper.

Having now particularly described and as- HIRAM CODD. artained the nature of my said invention, Witnesses:

mi in what manner the same is to be per- JOHN DEAN,

ARTHUR RICHARD SKERTEN,

rmed, I declare that hat I claim is Both of 17 Gracechurch St, London.

The combination, with the plunger A and 

